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Me, where do I search? In my younger days would just go out for the fun of it, before the internet, google search and google earth, now enjoying spending more time on research to gather possible leads. Typically any where that has old buildings, demolition of streets, farms, prefer to stay away from crowds, Sometimes especially at the beach hunting not much research, just reading the beach.
 
Farm fields baby, farm fields.

Steve
 

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For old town demolition sites (like old town park renovations, scrapes, etc....) : Get a subscription to the Builders Exchange websites. That's where any public works project (and sometimes private projects) are listed there for General contractors to bid on. I scan down the daily automated alert email, for anything that might have to do with any oldtown earth movement (old town sidewalk tear out projects, etc...)
 
I have hunted most all of the places mentioned. But I have to say I enjoy woods hunting the best. Over the last ten years I hunt National Guard property where the troops have set up their bivouac sites since 1909. Lots of bullets, but there is also the chance for a cool piece of military artifacts.
 
I hunt old abandon mining sites and lumber camps and like Hoser..I enjoy woods hunting the most. I find myself getting more interested in history the older I get so I plan on hunting parts of the old Forbes trail that are fairly close to me to hopefully find some 1700s stuff.
 
99.9% of my time is on the beach. The amount of stuff is pretty impressive... so is the fact that it's predominantly trash. I think I want to try some of the back bay areas (AKA: pluff mud) at low tide(s).
 
Tom_in_CA said:
For old town demolition sites (like old town park renovations, scrapes, etc....) : Get a subscription to the Builders Exchange websites. That's where any public works project (and sometimes private projects) are listed there for General contractors to bid on. I scan down the daily automated alert email, for anything that might have to do with any oldtown earth movement (old town sidewalk tear out projects, etc...)
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This is a great idea Tom. I've been a reader of this site for about 3 years now and I'm amazed how you can continually strengthen my skills daily!
 
As for me, I love my tot lots. Really good trash-to-treasure odds. Very little, if any, digging. The payout can be very high. Each tot lot takes about 15-30 minutes to hunt. Works out well for me.

Generally, I'll let my intuition guide me. Some days I just get the urge to go hunt one of the old forts, or out of the blue I get the hankering to hunt an old carnival site. Then there are times when all I want to do is recover some clad at any park.
 
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Beachhunt1 said:
Important to learn and read a beach!
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I used to hunt the east coast Florida beaches years ago 2-3 times a year for a week at a time. Learning to read beaches is essential to efficient beach hunting. Tides, wind and currents and of course storms re-arrange the location and depth of metallic objects. It actually sorts the objects in order of heaviness. It will typically either cover or uncover objects with sand depending on the nature of the storm. It will tend to group the lighter objects like fishing tackle, pop tops, pull tabs, foil and bottle caps, and bobby pins in some areas of the beach and heavier objects like rings, lead weights, older coins in other places on the beach. If you are only finding the lighter objects, you need to move to another area of the beach. There are books on reading the beach and articles on the internet.

It was my experience with Florida beach hunting years ago by talking to the many beach hunters 90% of them are on vacation and don't have a clue about reading beaches. Often you will find an experienced beach hunter staying in some specific areas of water or wet sand for a good reason. They are finding heavy targets that often include heavy rings. And the inexperienced hunters just walking a straight line parallel to the surf. Beach reading books and articles are essential to the newbie beach hunter if you want to increase your good finds on the beach.
 
In my younger days I used a Fisher gold bug to locate gold in creeks and branches in North Georgia about 6 miles SW of Dahlonega, GA. Years later got a Garrett Mater but didn't have much time to use it due to extensive work travel via the airlines.
Now I hunt totlots, volleyball courts, civil war sites that are still available to detect (getting fewer lately). Did extensive research about 7 years ago to find these still available civil war sites. Some may be just an acre or two tucked in the back of unused lands in neighborhoods. Others are in heavily used trashy parks. Pretty much enjoy any types of sites to hunt.
 
Older parks and popular beaches. It's tough for me to find older sites in my neck of the woods. Urban sprawl has taken over with newer buildings...
 
For gold, I only hunt in the water.

For coins, I look for old house tear outs, and any sort of construction digging. As Tom mentioned, find the resource in your city that explains where tear outs, construction, or digging will be taking place. An example of that, is last year when I found out that the parking lot was being extended for a fairgrounds that dated back to around 1900. The only way I found out about it, was becuase I was checking on the development section of my city's website. Anyway, they dug out an area about 80' wide, by about 500' long, to a depth of around 10". I came out of that site with over 30 silvers and about a dozen LC's. The best thing about it though, is that there was no nonferrous trash. Just about every single nonferrous signal, was an LC or silver.
 
Beachhunt1 said:
Important to learn and read a beach!
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My area is easy to read. Big neon sign sez: Can Slaw Cay. Hummmm
Cherry Picker said:
I love my tot lots.
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I showed up at my first tot lot to find Thing1 and Thing2 (aka: crackheads) doing their thing under the pavilion. Good times.
maxxkatt said:
inexperienced hunters just walking a straight line parallel to the surf.
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I LOVE to do this at low tide. Newest stuff & shallow digs. Best sights.
 
Diga said:
For gold, I only hunt in the water.

For coins, I look for old house tear outs, and any sort of construction digging. As Tom mentioned, find the resource in your city that explains where tear outs, construction, or digging will be taking place. An example of that, is last year when I found out that the parking lot was being extended for a fairgrounds that dated back to around 1900. The only way I found out about it, was becuase I was checking on the development section of my city's website. Anyway, they dug out an area about 80' wide, by about 500' long, to a depth of around 10". I came out of that site with over 30 silvers and about a dozen LC's. The best thing about it though, is that there was no nonferrous trash. Just about every single nonferrous signal, was an LC or silver.
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Great post ! (except, of course, for the part about "a dozen LC's" :sissyfight: )
 
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